downsampleCounts {scater}R Documentation

Downsample a count matrix

Description

Downsample a count matrix to a desired proportion.

Usage

downsampleCounts(x, prop)

Arguments

x

matrix of counts

prop

numeric scalar or vector of length ncol(x) in [0, 1] indicating the downsampling proportion

Details

This function calls downsampleMatrix. from the DropletUtils package. It is deprecated and will be removed in the next release.

Value

an integer matrix of downsampled counts

Examples

sce10x <- read10xResults(system.file("extdata", package="scater"))
downsampled <- downsampleCounts(counts(sce10x), prop = 0.5)


[Package scater version 1.8.4 Index]